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His winning personality and idealistic temperament, liis vitality, 

 boundless nervous energy and infinite kindness, never permitting 

 him to spare himself when he could help others, his boyish 

 simplicity, and his lofty sense of loyalty and morality made him 

 a colleague who inspired the warmest degree of affection and 

 have secured for him a permanent place in the hearts of all will) 

 whom he came into close contact. B, T. p. barker. 



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Mr. Guy Neville, formerly a young gardener at Kew, who was 



interned at lluhleben, has furnished us with the following- 

 account of the work done by Dr. Lechmere at the camp : 



Dr. Lechmere had a cheerful and happy disposition that 

 endeared him to all, but only those who knew him intimately 

 could appreciate at its true worth his utterly unselfish, chivalrous, 

 and upright nature; he was a true and thorough gentleman in 

 the very best sense of the term, one whom it was a privilege and 

 pleasure to know and whose loss will leave a feeling of personal 

 bereavement in the hearts of his friends. 



At the outbreak of war Dr. Lechmere was in Munich studying 

 various methods in Cytology prior to taking up his appointment 

 as Mvcologist at Loner Ashton Eesearch Station, and was sent to 

 lluhleben on the 6th November, 1914. 



Life in the camp in the autumn and winter of 1914-15 was 

 very severe and depressing, the food consisting chiefly of black 

 bread and soup, while the sleeping accommodation was very bad 

 and insufficient, but despite all privations, Dr. Lechmere kept 

 cheerful, and, seizing the first opportunity, started in the 

 summer of 1915 a series of lectures in Invertebrate Zoology 

 which, with various intermissions, continued until the break-up 

 of the camp in November, 1918. 



These first lectures, on the H ydrozoa, were held in the open 

 grand stand and speedily attracted a small but devoted band of 

 enthusiasts. The lectures were, however, discontinued owing to 

 cold weather, but restarted in the spring of 1916, when a barrack 

 loft was equipped (?) as a camp school, and two rooms reserved 

 for a Biology Department, one serving as a lecture room, the 

 other as a laboratory for practical botany. A year later these 

 were increased by the addition of a microtomy room and a room 

 which served to house our scientific books. Here a small 

 number of budding zoologists with Dr. Lechmere as their doyen 

 worked together for three years in the most perfect harmony and 

 co-operation. 



Dr. Lechmere in these three years lectured continuously, 

 chiefly on the Jnvertebrata, in which he was very interested. 

 Every phylum, with the exception of the Insecta, was dealt 

 with very exhaustively and thoroughly, and as he was an excel- 

 lent and interesting lecturer they were always attended with 

 great pleasure. He started a series of lectures in Medical Zoology 

 for aspiring medical and zoological students, lecturing succes- 

 sively on the Protozoa, the Hydrozoa, Coelenterata, Protoehor- 

 data, Scyllium, and other types required in the usual medical 

 •course. "Weekly lectures in Embryology formed a part of this 



